How to disable Synaptics Touchpad on Toshiba Satellite?

Hiya people, I have a Toshiba Satellite P200 1A4 laptop with a Synaptics touchpad. The distro in question is Slackware 12.1 with the generic-SMP kernel, in case it matters. However, I don't like touchpads at all and prefer a normal mouse.

So I'd like to know how I can disable it. I don't mean to disable it on the console or disable it in X, I wish to disable it alltogether. More.

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